The Anticor association has filed an appeal with the courts to contest the withdrawal of its approval

The Anticor association filed an appeal on Tuesday January 9 before the Paris administrative court to contest the withdrawal of its approval allowing it to intervene in anti-corruption cases, according to a document that franceinfo was able to consult.

In this appeal filed for “excess of power”the association evokes a “error of law and assessment committed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs”which withdrew this approval at the end of 2023.

An attack on the principle of “impartiality”

She also speaks of a “undermining the general principle of impartiality of administrative authorities”. The association asks the Paris administrative court to annul this decision refusing the request for renewal of the approval and to issue it with this approval. “within one month of the judgment being pronounced”.

The Anticor association lost its approval on December 26, by decision of the government. Since 2015, this approval has enabled Anticor to take legal action in cases of alleged corruption and breach of probity, particularly in the event of inaction by the prosecution. Without approval, the NGO can no longer become a civil party. Anticor, created in 2002, is involved in dozens of cases, some of which are famous and high-profile, such as, most recently, the complaint against the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.